SOUTH AFRICA 1930 SGO16/c Official

Stock Code: P189012954

Official. 1930-47 "Set 8" (= 1933 issue) 6d green and pale buff roto, SUIDAFRIKA one word, wmk inverted, SG type O2 opt, right marginal horizontal strip of four (R18/9-12) showing the remarkable error "OFFISIEEL reading UPWARDS" on the right stamp (R18/12), fresh o.g. Unobtrusive vertical crease, not affecting very fine and spectacular appearance. A great rarity, with fewer than five sheets (with this error on the last four stamps in the right-hand column, at R17-20/12) believed to have been printed before the setting was corrected. Ex Matheson. (cat £2000). [Union Handbook O35 V4].